We’re also designing from the outset to allow the player to choose how much they are aware of – this covers things like letting them know that there is an option that they fail to check for, having that completely explicit right down to what the dialogue choice would be, or if that simply says something like ‘option unavailable’ or what have you. We really don’t want to restrict the players, but there has to be significance to pursuing a particular attitude/philosophical leaning in the world. Then there’s the design we are testing we are certain simple options in every quadrant can sometimes be available. But to understand more about where the game is headed, what the effect of recent government funding will mean for the project, and what it was like making knock-off versions of Elite and Privateer as a teenager, I had a chat with Craig Ritchie, the founder of developer Drop Bear Bytes and Broken Roads‘s game director.
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While your character is always able to make choices of any given philosophy - just because you’re a ruthless killer doesn’t mean you will always be that way, as a simple example - their world view is transposed as a cone on a 360 degree wheel, which shifts by a certain amount of degrees depending on what choices you make.Ĭoupled with the Western Australian setting, and a character creation process that generates your character through a series of answers to moral quandaries, it’s a game that’s ticking a lot of boxes for RPG fans. Rather than your Mass Effect-style good/bad type system that encourages min-maxing, Broken Roads plots players’ morality on a shifting wheel. Scheduled for a 2022 release on all major platforms, the morality system gives players a range of dialogue options and choices throughout the game that align with their characters’ general core personality.
In case you missed it, the basic pitch for Broken Roads was this: it’s a post-apocalyptic narrative RPG with classic turn-based combat, with the main hook being the game’s Moral Compass system.
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This story has been updated following the news of Broken Roads’ PC and console release in 2022. The game isn’t due out until 2022, but I touched base with Broken Roads‘ game director to find out where the Aussie RPG was headed. One indie that arrived out of nowhere was Broken Roads, a traditional cRPG set in the outback with echoes of Wasteland and Mad Max. Every now and again, Australian developers throw up a neat surprise.
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